SWEDEN, THE BIG MORAL POWER, IN TATTERS

Sweden faces acute housing shortages and skyrocketing real estate prices, salaries so low for teachers and nurses that there are employee shortages, a lack of nursing homes, and, in a country that prides itself as an egalitarian society, the fastest growing inequality gap in the OECD.  The influx has dwindled to a trickle since Sweden reinstated border checks in November, but the large number of migrants has pushed the country’s famed “Swedish model” — a cradle-to-grave welfare state already a little worse-for-wear — to the edge.